The N.F.L.’s Rear Guard Is Angry About the “Tush Push” | The New Yorker
The N.F.L.’s rules committee considered banning it last season and will likely reëxamine the matter next year. Teams other than the Eagles, including some who have begun using the play, are said to hate it. The real issue seems to be that it almost always works, thus sapping high-stakes moments of their drama. But another argument against it, somewhat paradoxically, is that only the Eagles are good at it.